The workshops

They we­re bo­th grea­t, and le­ft me wi­th lo­ts of in­te­res­ting to­pi­cs for re­sear­ch
and do fur­ther wo­rk.

The first one walked through the workings of elasticsearch-dsl-py, which was great not only
because the explanations were superb, but also because there is probably no
better way to review this than from the author himself. I was already
experienced with the library, since I’ve used, Elasticsearch with Python,
but even though, this workshop gave me a deeper understanding of the concepts
behind it (there was a lot about the internals of Elasticsearch, how it
works, its configuration, concepts of information retrieval, etc.), so I got
new ideas. On the practical side, I’ll check this project.

The second one started with an overview of Kubernetes and OpenShift,
and shortly thereafter, we started with the practical assignment, on which we
deployed an application on the
OpenShift cloud.

The tools required for this are quite interesting. Personally, I prefer the
command line tool (oc client) to the web interface, not only because it
seems more familiar (for one using Linux), but also because it provides more
features and a richer interface. For example (at this point), cron jobs cannot
be created through the web interface, but only from the command line with this
client (and it was part of the exercise). I personally always find the command
line much more complete, useful, and rich (for example it allows automation,
scripting, etc.), compared to UIs, so I’ll use the client.

The Venue

The uni­ver­si­ty has a rea­lly ni­ce buil­din­g, pla­ced in an equa­ll­y-­ni­ce stu­den­t a­rea.